A CARGO train rammed into a passenger train in India’s eastern state of West Bengal today, killing at least eight people and injuring several others, officials said.

Doctors, disaster-response teams and ambulances were at the site in the Darjeeling district, the state’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said in a post on the X social media platform.

Three of the eight dead were railway personnel, said Sabyasachi De, the spokesperson of the Northeast Frontier Railway. Nearly 50 people were hospitalised.